For people born before 1986

For people born before 1986

I saw this on vvti.net and thought most of us fit this 'criteria'. I read it and remembered how most of us were all outside screwin' around not giving a shit. Here it is ... a tribute to all of us born before 1986.

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who Were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we.would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.No sky channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!British bulldogs,run off,We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits.We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

We played chap-the-door-run-away (bobber knockin) and were actually afraid the owners catching us.
We walked to friends' homes.
We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
The idea of a parents bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're one of them. Congratulations!

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids,before lawyers and governments regulated our lives, for our own good.

For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us.
This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.

They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children,and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one
Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they were born.
To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance. They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, RedHand Gang or the Famous Five.

They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

Now let's check if we're getting old...
1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
3. Your friends are getting married/already married.
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.
7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old days,repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
8. Having read this you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too...

Keep it real. *taps chest* Peace outside.


Good times really good times.

i was born in 86 and have done alot of that shit

man i wish we could take music back in time. the 70's and 80's music beats the crap out of the "awesome" stuff we have today. How can a song about peace complete with a song about getting "tipsy" whatever the fuck that means......

haha so true

all i can say is amen....what happened to the good ole days!!...everything went to sh*t once the 90s came around, lol...now u have to worry bout freaks roaming the streets so kids cant play out on their own yard anymore without a parent supervising them 2 feet away...now the majority of the generations up-bringing is spent on a couch in front of a tv or a chair in front of a table eating or a computer typing instead of running around endlessly into a town where everyone lived the simple life and everyday was a new adventure for new discoveries...wow, im only 20 yrs old and im talkin like this already, lol...

Once again, when i think of the past....i get mental pictures of things like this...simple life, everyone knew everyone and got along with everyone and never any trouble newhere...




And then you have todays society....

oh my....I am old...

iam not old yet

1977 here.

You forgot one. This generation know "Changes" by Tupac, and not by Bruce Hornsby and The Range.

Wow that brings back some memories though. lol I forgot about riding my bike with the jacket hood on my head. lol What an idiot.

you do..thats why you're labeled VA's biggest homo. lmfao.

lol..those were good and true.

Try www.retrojunk.com, that'll take you WAY BACK!!! lol

i know both bruce and tupacs version... newly 21 here, but with a somewhat healthy understanding of 'old school'... good stuff

1984 here. and yes i did smile at some of those because i did a lot of em